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Pop up vaccination centre to open on campus

The walk-in clinic will be open on campus on Monday 27 September and Wednesday 29 September from 8.30am – 8pm in the Marquee at New Square.

23 Sep 2021

Trinity Research Stories campaign shines a spotlight on our research

The eye-opening new video-based campaign kicks off today to showcase the variety and quality of research taking place at Trinity, to raise awareness of its importance and foster a deeper understanding of how research impacts our day-to-day lives.

19 May 2021

Research

Secondary infections inflame the brain and further disrupt cognition in Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, affecting more than 5% of those over 60 and this distressing, debilitating condition causes difficulties for a huge number of people across the globe.

3 Jun 2021

Research

Researchers tag basking sharks to learn more about Ireland’s gentle giants

The tags accumulate data about the sharks’ behaviour and physiology as they cruise around the coast feeding on plankton. The goal is to learn more about the anatomy and physiology of these ocean giants – information that will guide conservation efforts for an endangered species.

6 May 2021

Research

Overcoming the challenge of digital inclusion for adults with intellectual disability

The Digi-ID project, in the Trinity Centre for Ageing with an Intellectual Disability (TCAID) aims to address the challenge of digital inclusion and low usage of digital technologies amongst people with intellectual disability (ID).

21 Dec 2021

Research

Scientists pinpoint our most distant animal relatives

Their work finds strong evidence that sponges – not more complex comb jellies – were our most distant relatives.

31 Mar 2021

Research

Researchers develop new graphene-based sensor technology for wearable medical devices

The team’s printed sensors are 50 times more sensitive than the industry standard and outperform other comparable nano-enabled sensors in an important metric seen as a game-changer in the industry: flexibility.

4 May 2021

Research

Trinity performs strongly in QS World University Subject Rankings 2021

Trinity College Dublin has reinforced its reputation as Ireland’s leading university with a strong performance in the QS World University Subject Rankings 2021. Trinity has been named as one of the world’s leading universities in 34 subject areas.

3 Mar 2021

Pop up vaccination centre to open again on campus

A HSE pop up vaccination centre will be open on Wednesday 20 October, 8.30am – 6pm in the Marquee at New Square. No appointment is necessary.

18 Oct 2021

EU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness addresses climate change in Henry Grattan Lecture

In a speech entitled ‘The EU – COVID Impact and Facing up to Climate Change', Commissioner McGuinness noted that expectations were for faster economic growth and recovery than had been expected several months ago.

24 Sep 2021

Businesses urged to donate funds, laptops to tackle digital divide

As schools nationwide today begin a period of remote learning, Trinity College Dublin and Camara Ireland are appealing urgently for more businesses to help supply laptops to disadvantaged students.

11 Jan 2021

TILDA report shows scale of COVID crisis for Ireland’s older people

The wide-ranging report shows impact of COVID-19 restrictions on the lives of older adults.

28 Jan 2021

Research

Tangent gets LaunchBox 2021 underway as 10 student entrepreneurship teams begin their journey

After an application period which saw overwhelming interest from enterprising students, 10 teams collectively representing 9 schools from across Ireland’s oldest university have been selected to participate.

16 Jun 2021

Professor Dan Bradley wins Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal

Professor Bradley is a globally recognised pioneer in ancient genomics research, who has spearheaded such projects as the one that sequenced the first genomes of ancient Irish humans.

12 May 2021

Cycle Maintenance at Christmas: minding your mental health

Professor Ian Robertson, Co-Director of the Global Brain Health Institute encourages us to re-engage with a slower rhythm to take care of our mental well-being this Christmas.

22 Dec 2021

Research

Honorary degrees awarded at Trinity

Biologist David Wallach, historian James Ivan McGuire and sculptor Deirdre McLoughlin were today conferred with honorary degrees at Trinity College Dublin.

8 Dec 2021

Brain Awareness Week 2021: Tackling Motor Neurone Disease through research

Professor Orla Hardiman and her team’s world class MND research strengths are in clinical evaluation, epidemiology, neuropsychology, genetics, brain imaging and neural engineering.

17 Mar 2021

Research

What Star Wars can teach us about the decline of democracy

In this piece, co-authored for The Conversation, David Kenny, Associate Professor of Law, argues that several useful constitutional law lessons can be drawn from the Star Wars films.

7 Dec 2021

Culture|Research|Society

Latest Behind the Headlines Examines Perils of Political Speech

In the Trinity Long Room Hub’s latest Behind the Headlines, a panel of five distinguished speakers, including Ambassador to the US, Daniel Mulhall, discussed political language and speech and how oratory can persuade, for both good and bad.

4 Mar 2021

An tOllamh Linda Doyle ar tí a bheith ar an gcéad Phropast baineann i gColáiste na Tríonóide

Tá an tOllamh Linda Doyle ar tí a bheith ina Propast ar Choláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath, an chéad bhean a bheidh sa ról sin i stair 429 bliain na hOllscoile. Beidh sí ar an 45ú Propast de chuid na hOllscoile agus tiocfaidh sí i gcomharbacht ar an bPropast reatha, an Dr Patrick Prendergast, ar an 1 Lúnasa i mbliana.

10 Apr 2021

Business School graduates connect students with firms impacted by COVID-19 through innovative platform

Trinity Business School graduates, Paddy Ryder and Rob Muldowney, have been connecting students struggling to find internships with small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic through their platform, Covid Interns.

4 Feb 2021

Ancient DNA rewrites early Japanese history – modern day populations have tripartite genetic origin

Trinity's eye-opening research is published in leading international journal Science Advances and refines previously accepted views of a dual-genomic ancestry.

17 Sep 2021

Research

Drug use at music festivals: reducing harm and protecting health and well-being

Trinity research gives valuable insight into the attitudes and behaviours of a high-risk and under-consulted population.

11 Oct 2021

Research

Science Gallery adds TU Berlin to its international network

Science Gallery Internationalnhas today announced TU Berlin as the latest signing to its international roster of leading higher education institutions.

11 May 2021

OncoMark acquired by US molecular diagnostic company, Cepheid Inc.

Trinity's Professor Adrian Bracken spearheaded the research that initially led to the identification of a panel of genetic drivers of breast cancer, and which gave rise to a novel cancer test developed by the company.

16 Dec 2021

Research

Ireland’s great recession had detrimental effect on junior certificate results

New research has shown that the economic strain experience by families during Ireland’s great recession between 2009 and 2014 had a detrimental impact on young people’s performance in state exams at the age of 15.

16 Nov 2021

Research

Trinity and DPD team up in new air quality monitoring project

The project uses smart sensors on buildings and delivery vans to track Dublin’s air quality in real-time. In Trinity, a sensor has been installed in New Square, to capture Particulate Matter (PM) 2.5 levels.

20 Sep 2021

Research

Vitamin B12 deficiency increases risk of depression: TILDA study

New research from ageing experts at Trinity College finds longitudinal associations between B12 deficiency and risk of depression, over four years.

14 Dec 2021

Research

New gene therapy to treat children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy approved in Ireland

Development welcomed by Trinity College, St James's Hospital and Children’s Health Ireland following first successful clinical trials on four Irish babies and children.

8 Oct 2021

Research

Professor Yvonne Buckley named Vice President for Biodiversity and Climate Action

Trinity College Dublin underlines its commitment to biodiversity and climate action by becoming the first Irish university to champion this new role, which will place sustainability at the centre of Trinity’s governance and operations by making it a key focus at the highest levels within the university.

7 Oct 2021